Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 88 Ill. 2d 225 - People v. Baynes (1981), United States v. Ramirez (1979)
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. State · Pulakis v. State · Evans v. State · Burkhalter v. State · Romero v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been stated many times that great latitude should be allowed a defendant in showing any fact which would establish bias, motive or ill feeling on the part of any witness for the State. See Evans v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 519 S.W.2d 868 . This includes examining an accomplice witness who is testifying for the State in regard to any recommendations for probation or promises not to prosecute. See Burkhalter v. State, Tex.Cr. App., 493 S.W.2d 214 ; Stephens v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 522 S.W.2d 924 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. State · Mays v. State“With the testimony of Holden having taken and passed a polygraph examination before them, the jury would necessarily conclude that Holden’s testimony about appellant having told him that he shot a man in the robbery was true. It would be unrealistic to not conclude that the unverified testimony of Holden, a convicted felon, was bolstered immeasurably by testimony that he had taken and passed a lie detector test. Robinson at 61 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. State““ . . . the results of polygraph tests should not be received into evidence, over objection, even if there had been a prior agreement or stipulation. Such a stipulation does nothing to enhance the reliability of such evidence when offered by either side on the issue of the guilt or innocence of the accused.” [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fernandez v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.